A Peoples Guide to Publishing, Joe Biel
A Peoples Guide to Publishing, Joe Biel
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A People's Guide to Publishing
Build a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business from the Ground Up

Author: Joe Biel

Narrator: David Stifel

Unabridged: 11 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/04/2018

Synopsis

A comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide to book publishing written by a successful book publisherSo, you want to publish books.Publishing is an incredibly rewarding yet endlessly complicated profession. This comprehensive and empowering book serves as a resource and reality check for anyone considering launching a press or publishing a single book. Author Joe Biel draws on twenty-three years of experience in all parts of operating a small publishing company to teach you the skills of the trade, from distribution, operations, inventory, scheduling, and accounting to development, sales, publicity, and marketing. Listeners will come away with the confidence to succeed and a big-picture overview of why publishing matters and how to plan and run their business fairly and sustainably. This book is equally useful to publishing beginners looking for a realistic overview of the process and for already practicing publishers seeking a deeper understanding of accounting principles, ways to bring their books to new audiences, and how to advance their mission in a changing industry.

About Joe Biel

Joe Biel is an author, filmmaker, the founder and manager of Microcosm Publishing, and cofounder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He tours with his films on the Dinner and Bikes program and has been featured in Time, Publishers Weekly, Utne Reader, Portland Mercury, the Oregonian, Punk Planet, The Spectator (Japan), and Maximum Rocknroll, among others. His work can be found at JoeBiel.net.

About David Stifel

David Stifel trained at the Yale School of Drama and has worked for such noted film directors as Steven Spielberg and Danny Boyle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on February 07, 2021

I knew I would love this book the minute I first heard of it. It will probably be the most personally helpful book of my year. The author is authoritative without being pompous or condescending, and it’s got a nice punk undercurrent that taps into my own desire to do things different. Lots of proofi......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on February 17, 2019

Reading this while establishing a small press (Queen of Swords) is something of a bundle of mixed feels. There's a LOT of good information here and it is highly detailed and at least some of it will be applicable to someone starting up a small publishing venture in the here and now. Maybe the vast m......more

Goodreads review by Rachael | booksforbrunch on March 30, 2021

So much of what I'm learning in school for book publishing is in People's Guide to Publishing. Thoroughly enjoyed and learned from this book. Will have it on my shelf for reference for many years to come. Got my dad a copy so we could talk publishing biz!......more

Goodreads review by J.T. on October 07, 2021

This book seemed tailor-made for me, and I learned quite a bit. I've been running a small comics press (Birdcage Bottom Books) for over a decade, and yet Biel still managed to teach me a lot of great, specific knowledge. Highly recommend for anyone just starting out, well-seasoned, or anywhere in-be......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on May 04, 2019

I learned some useful things from this book about the publishing world, but some that I really disagreed with from personal experience with books and publishing. I appreciate the very much "business" point of view that Joe Biel comes from and I thought it was a great perspective but honestly this: "Pu......more

Quotes

“This insider’s guide to outsider publishing should leave aspiring publishers feeling inspired, optimistic, and well-informed.” Publishers Weekly

“Politely rebelious.” Publishers Weekly

“Joe Biel has a gift for looking at things a little differently. Anyone starting a publishing company or just hoping to publish one book will benefit from his perspective and experience in building Microcosm. They should read this.” Mark Suchomel, Senior Vice President, Baker & Taylor

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